Part One: Using American Memory (worth 40 points)

To receive full credit, you will need to record both your individual work and your group paragraphs on a page you call Part One on the group homepage.
Your group will write paragraphs based on personal interviews you have selected.

Set up this page as Part One A and Part One B.

Part One A. Broad Search Activity

Do a search of this website: American Memory using the keywords The Great Depression.
Use only the collections which contain information about personal interviews.

For 20 points:

Evaluate whether the resources returned in the search cover the Great Depression in America during the 1930s.

Individual Work:

Now, each member of the team should find a different person who was interviewed
Using your individual work page, add the answers to the the information you recorded from this page.(10 points)
It should contain as many different people as there are members of your group.
If you can locate images of the person, add it to the page.
Use the discussion tool on your group home page to let the members know whose interview you answered.

Group Work:

As a group, write a developed paragraph that uses the information from the interview (the answers to the questions).
Use the discussion tool on your group home page to discuss how you will all contribute to this paragraph.
Put this paragraph onto your wiki. Be sure it is carefully proofread (10 points)

Part One B. Narrow Search Activity

Now do a search of America from the Great Depression to World War Two: Photographs from the __FSA-OWI__, 1935-1945
Identify photographs documenting the African-American experience of 1935-1940.

For 20 points:

Individual Work:

Upload one large picture that you think represents this era in American history.
Explain what makes the picture a good example of The Great Depression.

There should be different photos and explanations for each group member on the wiki page.
Use the discussion tool on your group home page to discuss how you will all contribute to this part of the project.

Note: The collection has two sections: color and black and white. Each section has its own search page, although the collections can be searched together. It is usually better to search each section separately since the subject terms for the two groups of photographs were assigned at different times and used different conventions.

The color section has a subject index that will list images under the subject heading, African Americans.
The black and white section does not have this subject term. To find items, students must brainstorm other words for African American and use the Search by Keyword function. The keyword negro will find 100 'hits' in the section.

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